Henkaku Ensō teased on PSVita – With Video!

HENkaku is taking a step in a new direction; with Team Molecule working on it again. This time around, quite a major thing will happen. Think of it as an untethered jailbreak in which you don’t have to reapply HENkaku every time you load up your Vita.

What do we know about it?

Right now, not much is known but enough is out there to generate some hype; that’s for sure. The main thing we know right now is that HENkaku no longer needs to be reapplied because it’s automatically injected at boot time. While this may not seem so great considering that the taiHEN applying process is pretty stable; it opens a whole bunch of possibilities. This means that Team Molecule have delved deeper into the PSVita’s closed off boot process. Apart from not needing you to reapply taiHEN, this version of HENkaku can lead to many great developments and may turn taiHEN into a full CFW (a la the CFW’s in the days of the PSP). One thing the video confirms is that HENkaku Ensō is running on FW 3.60 so that means that an exploit on a higher FW may not be any closer. A cool feature that HENkaku Ensō seems to include is a custom boot logo you can see in the video!

Conclusion

Assuming the date on the HENkaku Ensō page is the release date of it; it’ll be released exactly one year after HENkaku landed. That means that it’ll land on the 29th of July 2017. It’s already more than 9 months since HENkaku landed so of course Team Molecule has surprised yet again. Development is currently in the hands of Team Molecule that is developer ‘Davee, Proxima, Yifan Lu, xyz’ as per the YouTube video. The video and the official site (which is quite barren right now) are linked below:

DISCLAIMER: NOT A WHOLE LOT OF INFO IS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW SO A LIMITED DEGREE OF SPECULATION WAS EMPLOYED IN THIS ARTICLE.

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74 Responses

Haha. I loved that method of getting in with the Calculator. I actually did a college project showing that off and explaining what it was doing. Wish I would have kept my modded PS3 but it wouldn’t be getting much use at this point anyway. Between the PS4, Xbone, Switch, and Vita… I don’t have enough time.

That unfortunately won’t happen. Newer games need files that are present on newer firmwares. They aren’t technically needed to run but Sony have done it this way so people update. A simple spoofer probably wouldn’t work 🙁

If they aren’t needed to run, then what’s stopping hackers from spoofing those files? I’m sure it would be more involved than just spoofing a firmware version, but I would think it would be possible to do this.

You can’t simply spoof files full of programming code. Newer games requiring firmwares beyond 3.60 look for programming code within those files so that they will run. It’s essentially the only thing holding back new games from running on any firmware we please.

The only solution that would work is being able to decrypt the ps vita update file for firmware 3.65, and scour over the entire contents of it to find what is in that firmware that isn’t in any other firmware, and possibly modify them, and repackage them into a 3.60 firmware update file. Then hope it works. Outside of that there would be no other way to make games running on firmwares 3.61+ work on firmware 3.60.

Hans if Im reading ZeroSbr right it sounds as though he wants to run physical games, which would make your solution a moot point. Yes your solution is do-able for those who want to “pirate” games, but for those of us wanting the actual game cart with its case, art sleeve, and any other inserts then what I stated is the solution…..so to quote you Hans…..please……

Guys this hack will change the world of PS Vita!!!!! Go team molecul!!!!! Great thought…. Scientists in gaming technology that’s what we the team that has made PS vita and other gaming utilities cooler should be called!!! Thumbs

Awesome news! My number one wish is that 3.60 can improve compatibility with ps1 games. I still keep my pstv on 3.20 for perfect ps1 and psp emulation! E.g. final fantasy XIII is really laggy using adrenaline and freezes momentarily at times. I dont think this ever really happened in 3.18/20

Can you guys do something productive this useless Henkaku is only on 3.60 do an exploit for higher firmwares for once. If not i’m going to do an exploit sooner or later that will be better than any other exploit. It will run on all firmwares and will be free to anyone. It will be called WS55. I will do it faster than these guys who take years to simply exploit a console. It will do what any of the other exploits do but better. This will be be in development very soon. Who’s excited for WS55?

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